At six o'clock the next morning, Lin Mobai, Song Jiarou and Zhao Feng got up to send Chen Luo and others back to the off-road vehicle at the foot of the mountain.
"Brother Mo Bai, the three of you must be careful of danger. This is a general map of Qishan. It is absolutely safe to follow the route planned on it." Chen Luo took out a map from the car and gave a few words of advice before leaving.
Lin Mobai said nothing, took the map and nodded.
After seeing off Chen Luo and others, the three of them set off back to the camp.
"The wild vegetable soup is ready! Come and eat!" The three heard Wang Jie's shout and walked towards the campfire together.
"Song Jiarou, can we find the Yanghun ginseng by ourselves without Chen Luo and the others?" Lin Mobai asked puzzledly as he sat down beside the campfire.
"They just regarded this operation as a simple scientific expedition, and did not tell them about the Yanghun Ginseng."
"Besides, the people from Yunchuntang will join us soon. Bringing them along will only cause too many people and too many eyes." Song Jiarou pursed her lips and replied.
Wang Jie gave each of the three people an iron bowl, and they all used the iron bowl in their hands to scoop directly into the pot.
In this situation, no one was too particular and everyone scooped up some soup and ate it with the few remaining compressed biscuits.
After it cooled for a while, Lin Mobai took a sip of the wild vegetable soup in the bowl and praised it in his heart. Although it was not as delicious as the one in the restaurant, it was made from wild vegetables in the mountains after all, and it was indeed very fresh. If he could drink this wild vegetable soup every day when he was in school in his previous life, he would not be so hungry that he would feel dizzy in class.
"Wang Jie, your cooking skills are pretty good. I think you shouldn't be a doctor in the future. Just fill in New Oriental Cooking School for your college entrance examination application." Lin Mobai couldn't help but praise.
"There's a saying that goes, 'Sister, if you meet a New Oriental chef, just marry him,'" Zhao Feng also joked.
The morning sun had slowly risen, and the cool sunlight shone on a few people. Everyone packed up. Fortunately, although the food, mobile phones, etc. were gone, the compass and other equipment were always carried with them.
We packed up the tent, put out the campfire by covering it with dirt, and then headed west along the compass, heading deeper into the Qishan Forest.
The mountain road was difficult to walk on, and with the morning fog, the ground was even more slippery. Wang Jie, who was walking in front of Lin Mobai, lost his balance and slipped, almost falling down. Fortunately, Lin Mobai grabbed him.
At noon, Zhao Feng, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong?" Lin Mobai and Wang Jie hurriedly followed.
"The map that Dean Chen gave me shows all the places where precious Chinese medicinal materials may appear, but..."
"Precious Chinese medicinal materials? Oh boy, Mo Bai, if we find all of these and take them back to sell, we will make a fortune." Wang Jie came up with a bold idea.
"The growing environment of precious Chinese medicinal materials must be top-notch, with no trace of heavy metals, pesticide residues or pollutants."
"This natural environment also has many exotic plants and wild animals. The cypress last night was enough for you to bear. But with your physique, you are enough for others to eat for half a day." Lin Mobai glanced at Wang Jie and said.
Zhao Feng stared at the map and thought for a while, then frowned: "However, there is a place on it that shows no vegetation."
"Do you mean that the Yanghun ginseng might be in that place?" Lin Mobai asked.
"But the geographical location is very vague. If we follow the general direction, it is five miles northeast of us." Zhao Feng thought for a while and replied.
"There must be something wrong when things are abnormal. Anyway, it's not far from where we are now, so we might as well go and take a look." Lin Mobai said after thinking for a while.
The four of them followed the direction of the map and soon they saw a small path. They walked along the path and came across an open space. To everyone's surprise, there was a temple on the open space that was built in an unknown era!
This ancient temple looks dilapidated, and its walls are full of cracks. The cracks crisscross back and forth, outlining an old and decrepit outline.
"How... how could there be a temple in a place like this?!" Wang Jie was obviously shocked when he saw the scene in front of him.
"Let's go and take a look first." Lin Mobai said with a serious face, staring at the ruined temple.
Everyone slowed down and slowly approached the ruined temple.
The sudden appearance of this extremely incongruous ancient building in this deserted deep mountain forest inevitably makes people feel worried.
"Be careful, the location mentioned on the map should be here." Zhao Feng reminded everyone.
The four people approached the ancient temple cautiously and stopped in front of the gate. They saw that the iron ring on the wooden door was covered with red rust, the horizontal plaque above it had fallen off and was buried in the dust on the ground, and the temple door was also tattered, and the paint on it had long been washed away by time, wind and rain.
There would be no one coming to burn incense in this suburban area, let alone to collect merits. Why would a temple be built here? If a monk built a temple here, it would be because he was just throwing salt in his pants and was bored. This is a waste of money.
There is no shade from trees in this place of the ancient temple, so the sunlight can shine in directly.
But at this moment, the strong sunlight was suddenly blocked by a large dark cloud, and the surroundings became dark in an instant.
At this moment, a gust of cold wind blew by, and Lin Mobai looked up suddenly. There were two white paper lanterns swaying in the wind above his head.
Wang Jie and Song Jiarou looked over and were immediately shocked.
Because the two lanterns swaying in the wind were brand new, without a speck of dust or even a hint of shabbyness on them, as if someone had just hung them up.
"Mo... Mobai, why don't we turn back? This is creepy, there must be something unclean in it." Wang Jie hid behind Lin Mobai, swallowed and shivered.
Lin Mobai concentrated his true energy into his eyes and stared at the lantern.
"Hmph, don't scare yourself. Maybe the clue to the Yanghun Ginseng is inside. Someone got there first and hung the lantern up there on purpose to scare away the people who come later."
"Zhao Feng, come and give me a hand."
Lin Mobai took a deep breath, and the two nodded to each other. They put their hands hard on the door, trying to push open the dilapidated temple door together.
But what was strange was that the temple door creaked but was not pushed open. From the crack in the door, one could see that it was locked from the inside.
"Get out of the way"
Wang Jie called out to Lin Mobai and Zhao Feng to move aside, rushed forward, placed his hands between the two doors, and pushed forward with all his strength.
But as expected, the door was still not pushed open, it just creaked.
"Fuck you!" Wang Jie cursed loudly, took a few steps back to gather his strength, rushed forward and kicked the temple door hard.
"Click"
With a crisp sound, the wooden latch inside the wooden door broke. Wang Jie lost his balance and fell into the courtyard of the ancient temple along with the shattered wooden door.